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March 29th (search for this): chapter 2
tter to Major-General Smith. By command of the Secretary of War: See Smith to Johnston, March 28, p. 369. Jno. Withers, Assistant Adjutant-General. Corinth, Miss., March 23, 1862. (Received March 27.) General Van Dorn, Little Rock: Move your command to Memphis by the route in your judgment the best and most expeditious, and on arriving report to these headquarters. Require such and whatever transportation you may need on your route from the quartermaster at Memphis. Answered March 29. A. S. Johnston. Jackson, Tenn., March 23, 1862. Major-General Van Dorn: Dispatch received. It is important to join our forces for defense of valley by shortest route. Could you not come to Memphis via river? There we will operate to best advantage. I will send you all the boats you may require. Sidney Johnston will be with us. You might come ahead for conference. We still hold Island 10 and Fort Pillow. G. T. Beauregard. Richmond, Va. [March 23], 1862. Gov. J. G. Shorter,
March 31st (search for this): chapter 2
rps everything reported. From commander of Third Corps: He reports his old division, composed of two brigades, two batteries, and seven battalions of light artillery and cavalry. This is all reported from the Central Army. See under date of March 31, ante. From Madrid Bend and Island 10 there is no report of the cavalry or of the Eleventh and Twelfth Arkansas Regiments or the Fourth Arkansas Battalion.   Madrid Bend and Island 10 1,996 2,822 3,479   Fort Pillow 1,741 2,732 3,302   Huntsville that Larcombe had been appointed railroad superintendent by General Mitchel. Very respectfully and truly, L. F. Zantzinger. [inclosure]Corinth, April 28, 1862. I was sent to Huntsville, Ala., by Mr. M. J. Waldron about the 31st March or 1st April, and ordered to report to Mr. A. J. Hopper, superintendent of Eastern Division of Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which I did. I remained in the office as assistant telegraph operator for purpose of attending to running of trains
April (search for this): chapter 2
on commence expiring. Of the four regiments from General Bragg's command, two--the Fifth Georgia and Ninth Mississippi--will be mustered out of service early in April and May. The effective strength of the Ninth Mississippi is under 400. Of the six regiments coming from Virginia, one--the First Georgia--was turned back at Lynchey report 500 sick and 8 deaths in the last twenty-four hours from typhoid fever. The term of service of nearly all the reliable troops in the district expires in April May, or June. The East Tennesseans will not organize for the war. Several regiments might be mustered in for twelve months, but with the exception of some 2,000 cegiments and Lieutenant-Colonel Stovall's battalion are for the war; the rest of the command is for twelve months, and their terms of service expire principally in April, May, and June. Of the six regiments to be sent from Virginia, J. C. Vaughn's (Third Tennessee) alone is here. The First Georgia was mustered out of service. Ma
April 1st (search for this): chapter 2
Belton, Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp. Abstract from return of the Central Army of Kentucky, General A. S. Johnston commanding, for March 31, 1862. the original is incomplete and unsigned. See also return of General Johnston's command for April 1, p. 382. Command. Present. Aggregate present and absent. For duty. Aggregate. First (Hardee's) Division:         Hindman's brigade 2,360 3,085 4,023   Cleburne's brigade   3,086 3,938   Shoup's artillery   149 315   Adams' caat Larcombe had been appointed railroad superintendent by General Mitchel. Very respectfully and truly, L. F. Zantzinger. [inclosure]Corinth, April 28, 1862. I was sent to Huntsville, Ala., by Mr. M. J. Waldron about the 31st March or 1st April, and ordered to report to Mr. A. J. Hopper, superintendent of Eastern Division of Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which I did. I remained in the office as assistant telegraph operator for purpose of attending to running of trains for the Gov
April 3rd (search for this): chapter 2
. The ammunition of the respective regiments will be placed in wagons, which, under the direction and superintendence of Quartermaster R. M. Mason, of this corps, will move in the rear of the corps. The address of the commanding general of April 3 must be read to each regiment before it marches. The commanding generals of divisions of the corps are ordered to send copies of this order and of the commanding general's address by a staff officer to each regimental battery commander of his ded. By order of the President: S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General. Richmond, Va., April 5, 1862. General A. Sidney Johnston, Corinth, Miss.: Your dispatch of yesterday received. Not found. Reference is probably to dispatch of April 3, p. 387. I hope you will be able to close with the enemy before his two columns unite. I anticipate victory. Brigadier-generals have been recently appointed; among them Bowen. Do you require others? Jefferson Davis. headquarters, Fort Pi
April 6th (search for this): chapter 2
y dear Captain: The general commanding has been informed that General Polk, in his report of the battle of Shiloh, says that the banks of the Tennessee River were so high that they offered good opportunity for our men during the evening of the 6th of April last, and that the enemy's gunboats could not have prevented our forces from completing our victory and capturing Grant's army before night. Besides other strong reasons for believing otherwise, General Beauregard thinks he has heard you annd. Yours, very respectfully, A. N. Toutant Beauregard. Charleston, S. C., March 31, 1863. Col. Jacob Thompson, Jackson, Miss.: Colonel: The general commanding desires me to inquire of you if you recollect passing the evening of the 6th of April last (battle of Shiloh) in a tent with him, Generals Bragg, and Polk, until they parted, and what was said on the occasion? He is informed that General Polk, in his report of the battle of Shiloh, within several months after (about nine), exp
April 7th (search for this): chapter 2
fusal to arrest and send the delinquents to Knoxville. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, E. Kirby Smith, Major-General Commanding. Circular.Hdqrs. Department of East Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2, 1862. On Monday next, the 7th day of April, officers are to be installed at------, for the county of------. The disloyalty of many citizens of that county makes it doubtful if the oath to support the Confederacy will be taken by the newly-elected officers unless the Government have sessary to sustain the Government in all its departments, directs that you will detail an officer of discretion, coolness, and nerve, with 25 reliable men, with orders to proceed to------, and arrive there about 9 o'clock a. m. on Monday, the 7th day of April. You will privately instruct him regarding his duties and to see that the usual oath to support the Constitution of the Confederate States of America (a copy of which is inclosed for his information) is taken by each one of the officers to
April 8th (search for this): chapter 2
on of that enabling the courts to take cognizance of the probate of wills, the administration of the estates of deceased persons, the qualification of guardians to enter decrees and orders for the partition and sale of property, to make orders concerning roads and bridges, to assess county levies, and to order the payment of county dues), and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in the department aforesaid. In faith whereof I have hereunto signed my name and set my seal this eighth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. [seal.] Jefferson Davis. Ii. Maj. Gen. E. K. Smith, commanding the Department of East Tennessee, is charged with the due execution of the foregoing proclamation. He will forthwith establish an efficient military police, and will enforce the following orders: All distillation of spirituous liquors is positively prohibited, and the distilleries will forthwith be closed. The sale of spirituous liquors of any kind is al
April 9th (search for this): chapter 2
Mississippi but our independence. G. T. Beauregard. Corinth, April 29, 1862. General: I have made diligent inquiries relative to the paper you handed me yesterday. I return it, and inclose therewith the statement of Lieutenant Webb, a Government telegraph operator, who was there at the time. The regular operator, Martin Pride, had received permission some time before to go to Fayetteville on personal affairs, but by Mr. Hopper's order he left Huntsville about Wednesday noon, the 9th of April, together with J. G. Heap a tinner by trade, who was employed as a spy or scout to get information of the enemy's movements. The two were taken into Fayetteville by the Federal pickets and detained some four or five hours. After being released, to avoid detention, they went northeast about 3 miles and turned back, reaching Brownsborough, some 10 miles east of Huntsville. Pride took passage on a gravel train and proceeded to Stevenson. From there he came to Corinth, to report himself
April 10th (search for this): chapter 2
t succeeded in making myself clear in my letter of the 21st ultimo. I intended that letter to be taken in connection with that of the 17th ultimo, and merely as explanatory of the letter in some respects. I stated in my letter of the 17th ultimo that the companies and regiments of your command were first to be filled from the militia ordered to report to you, and to that end authorized you to prevent recruiting from them for other commands. I had reference in this letter to yours of the 10th April, and intended to be understood as approving your design of increasing the Pound Gap battalion to a regiment, as well as completing your other regiments. In my letter of the 21st ultimo I did not intend to change in any respect what I had said in that, of the 17th. But supposing that you would have more than enough men to do what I had approved, and having already informed you that when your command was full the residue of the militia were subject to be enlisted in other commands drawn
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